Overview

Full Product Details

Author:   Joan Hawkins ,  Henry Alexander Wermer-Colan ,  Charles Cannon ,  Tony A. Brewer
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
Imprint:   Indiana University Press
ISBN:  

9780253041333

ISBN 10:   0253041333
Pages:   456
Publication Date:   17 May 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us.

Table of Contents

"Acknowledgments Collage of Time Harvard Lampoon Parody, William S. Burroughs, facsimile, 1965 Introduction: Cutting Up the Century / Alex Wermer-Colan and Joan Hawkins Biographical Timeline Metamorphosis 1. Cutting Up the Century / Oliver Harris The Reality Studio SECTION I: ICON/VIRAL Deposition of the Ugly Spirit, William S. Burroughs, typescript, Villa Muniria, Summer 1961 2. Burroughs and Biography: An Interview with Barry Miles / Oliver Harris Cutting Up the Critics, typescripts, 1962–64 3. The Nova Convention: Celebrating the Burroughs of Downtown New York / Kristen Galvin Nova Convention Poster, Sylvere Lotringer, facsimile, 1978 4. The Disembodied Fry: William S. Burroughs and Vocal Performance / Landon Palmer Cut-up with Limericks, William S. Burroughs, typescript, 1971 5. William S. Burroughs' Spirit of Collaboration / Allen Hibbard SECTION II: SPACE/TIME 6. Burroughs and the Biosphere, 1974–1997 / Kathelin Gray The Permissive Society, William S. Burroughs, typescript, 1971 7. Beat Regionalism: Burroughs in Mexico, Burroughs in Women's Studies / Aaron Nyerges Collage of Newsclippings, William S. Burroughs, facsimile, 1970 8. Interference Zones: William Burroughs in the Interstices of Globalization / Timothy S. Murphy On China 9. Cut-Up City: William S. Burroughs' ""St. Louis Return"" / Eric Sandweiss SECTION III: WORD/IMAGE On Addiction 10. William S. Burroughs' Imperial Decadence: Subversive Literature in the Cynical Age of the American Century / Alex Wermer-Colan Opium Collage, William S. Burroughs, typescript, Dream Rat Calendar, Monday Bellevue 4, 1970 11. Naked Lunch and the Art of Incompleteness: The Use of Genre in Burroughs' Book and Cronenberg's Film / Joshua Vasquez The Fall of Art 12. Queer Outlaws Losing: The Betrayal of the Outlaw Underground in The Place of Dead Roads / Kurt Hemmer Thinking in Colors 13. Rimbaud and Genet, Burroughs' Favorite Mirrors / Véronique Lane SECTION IV: CUT/FOLD On the Cut-Up 14. Cross the Wounded Galaxies: A Conversation about the Cut-Up Trilogy / Davis Schneiderman and Oliver Harris The Photo Collage: Watergate 15. ""Word FallingPhoto Falling"": William S. Burroughs and the Word as Written Image / Blake Stricklin Cutting Up Scientology 16. Mutable Forms: The Proto-Ecology of William Burroughs' Early Cut-Ups / Chad Weidner SECTION V: BODY/SPIRIT The Wild Boys, A Pornographic Screenplay 17. William S. Burroughs, Transcendence Porn, and The Ticket That Exploded / Katharine Streip Dream Note on Indictment for Murdering Joan, William S. Burroughs 18. Gender Trouble: A Critical Roundtable on Burroughs and Gender / Ann Douglas, Anne Waldman, and Regina Weinreich Cutting Up Last Words 19. The Burroughs Effect / Anne Waldman Root Face, William S. Burroughs, facsimile, 1987 Index"

Reviews

A landmark in scholarship. . . . Highly recommended. * Choice *

A landmark in scholarship.... Highly recommended. * Choice *

Author Information

Joan Hawkins is Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies in the Media School at Indiana University. She is author of Cutting Edge: Art-Horror and the Horrific Avant-garde and editor of the anthology Downtown Film and TV Culture, 1975-2001. She co-organized the Burroughs Century conference and symposium held at Indiana University Bloomington in 2014. Alex Wermer-Colan is a Council of Library and Information Resources Postdoctoral Fellow at Temple Universitys Digital Scholarship Center. He researched and edited The Travel Agency is on Fire, a collection of unpublished archival materials, prose poems Burroughs produced by cutting up a range of canonical texts. Wermer-Colan was the organizer of the William S. Burroughs Centennial Conference held at the City University of New York in 2014.

Tab Content 6

Author Website:  

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

No review item found!

Add your own review!

Countries Available

All regions